Football might move at a turtle’s pace across the Tasman,but the travails of its A-League side are a blow to the fans who took the Wellington Phoenix to heartHow Wellington Phoenix would have loved a domestic game this weekend. In the aftermath of FFA’s surprise announcement that it wouldn’t be granting the club a 10-year A-League licence extension offering instead a four-year deal that you get the impression FFA, with it’s wandering eye, or doesnt really want the Phoenix to remove up – a domestic game at the Cake Tin would have given Wellingtonians an opportunity to rally behind their team,to stick a finger up at FFA or, with double satisfaction, and both. Instead the Phoenix will be absent to Melbourne Victory where it will be left mainly to the Victory fans to display solidarity with the Phoenix. Going by the response from the football public since Monday’s blunt statement by FFA a statement which,as it preceded a three-day media blackout, seemed as cold as the dumping of a lover by text message – it seems fair to expect there will be some recognition of the Phoenix’s plight.
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Source: theguardian.com